'That so many of these essays succeed in being purely provocative is a testament to the quality of the book.' - Reformation
Introduction: Gender and Holiness: Performance and representation in the later Middle Ages 1. 'The Law of Sin that is in my Members': Problem of male embodiment 2. The Role of Patronage and Audience in the Cults of Sts Margaret and Marina of Antioch 3. Virginial Effects: Text and identity in Ancrene Wisse 4. Pain, Torture and Death in the Huntington Library 5. St George as a Virgin Martyr 6. Becoming a Virgin King: Richard II and Edward the Confessor 7. Female Piety and Impiety: Selected images of women in wall paintings in England after 1300 8. Staging Conversion: The Digby Saint plays and The Book of Margery Kempe 9. Gendering Charity in Medieval Hagiography 10. Ecce Homo